Book #3: Spy Glass, by Maria Snyder
Jan. 22nd, 2011 01:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grav_ityOkay, I loved Poison Study. It's probably one of my favourite books of all time. And the other "study" books were pretty good. But for some reason the "Glass" books? Just kept getting worse and worse. And this one? WAS TERRIBLE.
Way too many things were going on, for starters. And it was really two books with a wedding in between them, and the whole thing didn't really hang together very well because there were SO MANY DETAILS that all ended up being "important", but also kind of superfluous.
Oh, god, and OPAL! The girl is a TRAIN WRECK. Usually, when I am reading a book about a girl, I am all "You go girl! You get out there and raise hell and so on!" But Opal mostly made me wish that she would just GROW UP ALREADY and go live in a cave with Kade and raise Stormdancing babies because she fails so badly at EVERYTHING. And she never learns her damn lesson. AND THEN SHE MARRIES HER DAMN RAPIST! Who is a "changed man" (and this according the Special Horses who know these things, but EEEEEEEEEWWW!!!!), but STILL!
The fail in this book, you guys. THE FAIL.
On the bright side, lots of Ari, Janco and Valek. Which just makes me wish I hadn't left Poison Study in Ontario because I want to read it REALLY BADLY.
Objectively, I'd say this book is probably a 7/10. Since I have never even pretended that these reviews are objective, however, I am giving it a 4.
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To make myself feel better, I read![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kuwdora's Sanctuary fic Heroine With A Thousand Faces, which pretty much comes up with the only way in the world The Five could be better than the actually are. ;)
Way too many things were going on, for starters. And it was really two books with a wedding in between them, and the whole thing didn't really hang together very well because there were SO MANY DETAILS that all ended up being "important", but also kind of superfluous.
Oh, god, and OPAL! The girl is a TRAIN WRECK. Usually, when I am reading a book about a girl, I am all "You go girl! You get out there and raise hell and so on!" But Opal mostly made me wish that she would just GROW UP ALREADY and go live in a cave with Kade and raise Stormdancing babies because she fails so badly at EVERYTHING. And she never learns her damn lesson. AND THEN SHE MARRIES HER DAMN RAPIST! Who is a "changed man" (and this according the Special Horses who know these things, but EEEEEEEEEWWW!!!!), but STILL!
The fail in this book, you guys. THE FAIL.
On the bright side, lots of Ari, Janco and Valek. Which just makes me wish I hadn't left Poison Study in Ontario because I want to read it REALLY BADLY.
Objectively, I'd say this book is probably a 7/10. Since I have never even pretended that these reviews are objective, however, I am giving it a 4.
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To make myself feel better, I read
kuwdora's Sanctuary fic Heroine With A Thousand Faces, which pretty much comes up with the only way in the world The Five could be better than the actually are. ;)
